THOMAS F. BUDINGER, MD, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley; Professor in Residence in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco; head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine & Functional Imaging at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.

MIRIAM D. BUDINGER, MD, is a pediatrician and physician scientist with a career that has focused on adolescent medicine, infectious diseases, and the design and conduct of clinical trials in immunocompromised patients. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.